The Fall 2020 Friel-Scanlan Lecture Sex, Drugs and Bankruptcy: Due Process and Social Debt

Presented By Professor Jonathan Lipson

November 10, 2020
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW

This talk will draw on several papers (below) to discuss the difficult dynamics of chapter 11 reorganizations involving liability for egregious misconduct, such as sexual assault or the opioid crisis (e.g., Purdue Pharma, Boy Scouts of America, etc.).  

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Papers

The Secret Life of Priority:  Corporate Reorganization after Jevic, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 631 (2018)

“Bargaining Bankrupt: A Relational Theory of Contract in Bankruptcy”, 6.2 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 239 (2016)

Making America Worse: Jobs and Money at Trump Casinos, 1997-2010 (working paper)

Examining Success, 90 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2016)(with C. Marrotta)

Stern, Seriously:  The Article I Judicial Power, Fraudulent Transfers, and Leveraged Buyouts, 2013 Wis. L. Rev. 1161 (with J. Vandermeuse)

Understanding Failure: Examiners and the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large Public Companies, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2010)

The Shadow Bankruptcy System, 89 B.U. L. Rev. 1609 (2009)

Debt and Democracy:  Towards a Constitutional Theory of Bankruptcy, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 605 (2008)

When Churches Fail:  The Diocesan Debtor Dilemmas, 79 S. Cal. L. Rev. 363 (2006)